Monika Treut


Director, Documentarian, Producer

About

Birth Place
Germany
Born
April 06, 1954

Bibliography

"The Cruel Woman"
Monika Treut, Stroemfeld/Roter Stern (1984)

Biography

Life Events

1983

Made first film, the documentary short, "Bondage"

1985

Co-wrote-produced-directed (with Elfi Mikesch) first feature film, "Seduction: The Cruel Woman", an adaptation of Sacher-Masoch's "Venus in Furs"

1988

First solo feature film credit as writer-producer-director, "Virgin Machine"

1991

First US feature film, "Success/My Father Is Coming!"

1993

Acting debut in "Domenica"

1998

Wrote and directed "Didn't Do It for Love", a non-fiction profile of Norwegian-born actress turned sex therapist Eva Norvind

1999

Produced, wrote, directed and narrated the documentary "Gendernauts" (released in USA in 2000), about a group of gender cyborgs, who, with the aid of testosterone and surgical procedures, are traversing the expanse of gender from female to male in the San Francisco Bay area

2001

Helmed "Warrior of Love", a documentary on Brazilian social activist Yvonne Bezerra de Mello

Bibliography

"The Cruel Woman"
Monika Treut, Stroemfeld/Roter Stern (1984)